A new poll shows that most Palestinians no longer support the “two state solution,” which entails lopping off Judea, Samaria, and most of Jerusalem from Israel and establishing an Arab state. According to the poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 51% of Palestinian Authority residents – including in PA-controlled
Egypt has begun flooding Hamas terror tunnels beneath the Egypt-Gaza Rafah border crossing Friday, in an apparent attempt to prevent terrorist infiltrations. According to Dutch news agency DPA, Egypt pumped water from the Mediterranean Sea into the tunnels, making good on threats it made to Hamas last month. Egyptian officials apparently intend to
A former lieutenant of former Al-Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden, has been killed in fighting with pro-government militiamen in Syria, a monitor said Saturday, according to the AFP news agency. “Abul Hassan al-Tunsi, an important leader of Al-Nusra Front, was killed in clashes Friday between Islamist rebels and pro-government militia around the Shiite villages
Further signs have surfaced showing that the crackdown on Kurdish forces by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) - which experts estimated was an elections ploy - has failed spectacularly. Several analysts explained Erdogan's unofficial war on Kurdish forces launched in July was a ploy to make up for
Mahmoud al-Zahar, a member of the Hamas politburo and a senior official in the terrorist organization, threatened violence against the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Friday despite the unity agreement between the two groups sealed last April. Speaking at a massive rally in Gaza's Khan Younis organized by Hamas in support of the Islamist rioters
The unusual crane collapse last Friday at the Grand Mosque in Mecca has apparently sparked a fallout in the Muslim world regarding its holiest site, as senior Egyptian religious figures called for Saudi authority over the site to be changed. The collapse killed 107 people and wounded 238 at the holiest site in Islam
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas - often lauded in the international community as a "peace partner" for Israel - on Wednesday called for terrorist "martyrs" to prevent "filthy" Jews from visiting the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. Abbas's comments, which came following rioting by radical Islamists at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday launched a scathing verbal attack on Israel, following the continued clashes between Arab rioters and Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Abbas, speaking in particularly harsh language, insisted that none of Jerusalem's holy sites belonged to Israel, reported Al-Arabiya. "They are all ours
Prolonged disputes between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have left Gazans without electricity for eight-hour stretches - and Gazans say that they prefer Israel over their Hamas rulers as the crisis continues. "The Israelis are better," Ibrahim, one Gazan, told Channel 2 Wednesday. "All talk on the street is about the electricity. All
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the Iran issue as he arrived in London on Wednesday, stating that the Islamic Republic is swindling the West via the Iran nuclear deal. "[Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei is not giving supporters of the agreement any room for illusion," Netanyahu began. "He has made it clear that the US is
